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This Totally Rocked Me

Ok.... yeah I know, I know.... again I said I was going to keep it zipped about personal stuff.... this is not personal.... well, not really.... it's readily accessible info.... but I just had to share because the article just totally rocked me....

Spiritual Relationships -- A New Level of Intimacy and Sharing

So yeah, there you go.... and... Amen!

Anyway.... going to be quite scarce for a bit.... very busy cannoli kitchen going on....

Thought for Today ::

Creativity is your birthright.
You miraculously appeared from nowhere.
The Unseen that gave you Life is still nourishing you
- and, if you remain open,
it will inspire you endlessly...

Metta Zetty  ~ American Author and Spiritual Mentor

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Huge iDSD Sale @ PBP

Happy international Digital Scrapbooking Day!!!

Combine the 44% off coupon available here on the DBA les*BLOG with my iDSD 30% off sale at PBP and you are sure to snag a super huge bargain this weekend!

 

Have fun shopping everyone ~ can't wait to see the galleries filling next week with all the fab new pages and purchases in action! 

Thought for Today ::

Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress.  Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not.  A traveller walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward.  Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud.

Vernon Howard, 1918-1992  ~ American Author and Spiritual Teacher

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On Sick Leave...

.... sick leave without pay even! LOL 

Seriously though, I've been sick for the last 3 weeks or so..... totally floundering with everything, so have been trying to take it easy..... easier said than done....

For what it's worth I just had my 4 year anniversary on 29th October.... I can't believe I just said that.... 4 years since I started selling my work!

Woaaahhhh!  A lot of this >> during the last 4 years let me tell ya! LOL

So in lieu of anything fancy here's a coupon for a deep discount ~ 44% off, good in my store at PickleBerryPop.com until 30 November, coupon code :: 4years!

Special thanks (and many curses ) to Theresa Hernandez for roping me into the designing gig ~ still love you hon and you too Ernie ~ and belated huge congrats to you both on NDISB's 4th Birthday too!!!!

Oh and for any and all of you who can name the first freebie kit that I ever released right here on this blog in August 2005, you can grab the item of your choice from your Design by Anita wish list at PickleBerryPop.com for free!  Just shoot me an email with your answer :: DesignByAnitaR {..at..}gmail{..dot..}com

Have a great hump day for those of you on the other side of this magnificent rock we call the world ~ hope you had an equally good one if you're on this side.

Thought for Today ::

When you realise
    how perfect everything is
        you will tilt your head back
            and laugh at the sky.
Buddha  ~  "The Enlightened One"

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Lock Down Lifted

For the last 9-10 days this blog has been locked down under password protection because of ongoing legal hassles with the ex.

Man I hate this because I truly love blogging, but I'm going to follow the path of wisdom and listen to the advice of my lawyer aka keep it zipped on the personal stuff from this point on.... sticking to good old fashioned pen and paper for that....

.... besides I love doodling and doodling is rather a challenge to accomplish when your fingers are dancing across a keyboard, right?

So, I've cleaned out pretty much all the personal stuff and deleted all the comments ~ stripped down to bare minimum to start again ~ full circle to the n^th degree. LOL

Thought for Today ::

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
Barbara Kingsolver

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# 4 ~ Spot Prize!!!

Here we go everyone ~ Spot Prize number 4.

Remember the rules are simple, all you need to do is post a comment including the words "Thanks for the Spot Prize".... $10.00 coupons up for grabs this time.

 

Happy scrappin'!

Thought for Today ::

Whatever we feel
    we most need
        is what we most need to give.

Author Unknown  ~  But Very Much Appreciated!

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Meet the Design by Anita Creative Team

It's official!

I held off on posting this a few days longer than intended... but only because I was making sure that everyone who I wanted on the team had responded.  *D

So with an extended drum roll if you please.......................

Thought for Today ::

There will always be challenges that have manifested, and dreams that haven't. But they'll always pale in comparison to the number of dreams that have manifested, and challenges that haven't.
Mike Dooley  ~  Inspirational Author, Speaker and Friend

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Spot Prize!!!

Spot Prize!!!

And the winner is....

...  drum roll please ...

There were eligible orders resulting in 53 tickets for the random draw for the Get Rewarded promotion to Win my Entire Store.

 

So, the Winner of the Get Rewarded promotion is :::

Order ID # 38227 Jennifer White

Congratulations Jennifer ~ you will be contacted by email shortly!

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Creative Team Call:

The Design by Anita CT Call is due to finish today Sunday 4th October 2009 - last chance people!

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Email:

I'm drowning in email again and have a tough couple of days ahead, so if I get behind responding to email again please bear with me. k

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Worked on a little more repackaging around the blog train stuff that has been released over the last couple of days.  Managed to finish this one:

Thought for Today ::

It only takes a spark, remember, to set off a forest fire.  A careless or wrongly placed word out of your mouth can do that.  By our speech we can ruin the world, turn harmony to chaos, throw mud on a reputation, send the whole world up in smoke and go up in smoke with it, smoke right from the pit of hell.
My friends, this can’t go on.  A spring doesn’t gush fresh water one day and brackish the next, does it?

James 3.5-6, 10

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That's What I Want... FREEbies... :)

... The Best Things - that's what I want in life....

So teamed up with Angel Hartline aka Angeltown and a bunch of other designers we threw together a special one week blog train to celebrate Angel's birthday AND her debut as a designer at Divine Digital... happy birthday and WTG Girl!!!!

Here's what I threw together for it...

You can download this part of The Best Things blog train kit > here <

The download will be removed from 4Shared on 11th October 2009 at which time it will go up for sale in my store at PickleBerryPop; sorry no exceptions.

***ETA*** Sorry you missed it - the expanded kit will be available for sale in the Design by Anita store at PickleBerryPop.com shortly.

Make sure to visit the other participants on the Blog Train:

Angel Hartline Designs | Angeltown : http://angeltown.typepad.com

DIGI_licious Designs | Christine Mortimer : http://digilicious.typepad.com

Girlboheme Studio's | Aimee Harrison : http://girlboheme.com/gbstudios

Brownie Scraps : http://www.browniescraps.com/blog

Maitri's Digital Scraps : www.maitriscraps.blogspot.com

Mad Genius Designs | JewelTheQueen : http://bothmadandgenius.blogspot.com

Studio Ra Designs | Royanna Fristchmann : http://royanna.blogspot.com

Thought for Today ::

You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.

Andy Warhol, 1928-1987  ~  American Painter, Printmaker and Filmmaker

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